Mission Orders

You must go to Castle Zvahl in Xarcabard. The President himself will brief you in his office.

Walkthrough

The Windurst Mission is called "The Shadow Awaits". You must speak with the Star Sybil after getting the mission from the guard.

You may need to talk to Halver and Prince Trion for a cutscene in order to enter the Shadow Lord fight.
Only one party may take part in this mission at a time.

It is recommended you finish the quest "Northward" from Radeivepart (Ru'lude Gardens, Peace Monument) for a map of Castle Zvahl.

After you have the mission intitated, head to Xarcabard, then Castle Zvahl Baileys. Make your way in to Castle Zvahl Keep. Beware, there are multiple types of beastmen on the way in, some which detect by sound and others by sight.

Once in the Keep, you will need to make your way through several gates and Ore doors to the teleporters. You should kill the demons around the teleporters to avoid trains of mobs. Once you have gone through all the teleporters you will enter the Throne Room. There are no mobs in this area so you can use this place to med and buff. Once that is done head across the bridge to the tower and open the door to the Throne Room where the tomb of the Shadow Lord lies.

The first Shadow Lord form will be immune to almost all forms of magic. He later becomes immune to physical damage and so you must finish him off with magic. After you kill him he will of course get upset and come at you again. He will do only AE attacks so make sure to use Curaga spells.

After you are done head back to your home town to collect your 20,000 gil reward and Rank 6.

I went Shadow Lord with 5 x 75 friends and was glad to have that much help b/c the road to get to SL sucks and..... we couldnt get in: door firmly closed. After long surch and months in between i now wonder why the **** the instructions dont tell you to talk to Halver and Trion. I was starting to think you need min. lvl 50 job to get in, like it sais 50-75, and been working on it, i was BLM44 when i went, but it wasnt the problem at all. But neighter 5.1 or 5.2 tells you to get cs with Halver and Trion. So be warned and safe yourself the **** getting there and find the door closed.

After just initiate this quest it will show as 'Shadow Lord' in your questlist, what doesnt mean you are able to get SL without talking to Halver and Trion

I recently rejoined FFXI with my taru still in tact thankfully. I'm kinda overwhelmed with all the new expansions and didn't know where to start. SO I decided to finish up my missions but it seems every one else in my server (Alexander) is busy doing other things I've been missing out on.

So with that being said...is there anyone that could help me at least with this mission? I'd appreciate it a lot. I feel like a total noob again!

Anyway my character name is Foamy (tarutaru) I'm a 59BLM/29WHM in the Alexander server. Send me a /tell in game if you are interested in helping or reply to this post and we can figure out a time and date to do the mission.

I am a recently re-joined lvl 59 BLM Taru as well. I too need to get this mission done. I'm not on that much, but every now and then. Search for Prax or I'll try and send you a message and maybe we can find a few others to assist?

Walked in, throw up RR, and threw on Ichi. Started punching, he led with Blind (which is good as the 2 times I tried before this he led with Ice Spikes and it just paralyzed EVERYTHING), and I got very lucky with spells, he threw out an Aeroga II for <100 dmg. He became immune to magic damage and I weapon skilled whenever I could, he became immune to physical and I hit Formless Strikes, got him down to ~20% hp and hit Hundred Fists. After that he became immune to magic and somehow got another -ga off even though I had Hundred Fists and I beat the first form. I ended the first form with just over 1.4k HP and 300 tp.

Second form started, I led with Asuran Fists for 1200 dmg. Punched some more, Asuran Fists again for another 1200 dmg and the win. Second part is VERY easy. Finished the fight with 1175 HP.

easy preyy....fought this guy @ least 4times with LS since most of em need rank6...hold the record for lakshmi 5mins flat..me smn75..2 75sam..70whm...65 pld(he tanks every NM us 75's fight he getting good cause of us even in dynamis)

So I just tried to solo this as a BST75/NIN37. Got to the throne room without aggro. Just some EP monsters before the entrance to the throne room.

Buffed up and engaged him. He's fairly weak to physical damage. CC did all the tanking. With 35% left he became immume to physical attacks. I forgot to take some ninja tools to deal some magical damage...... So I ran around a bit with the shadow lord chasing me. After like 5 minutes, he started casting Dark Nova and was weak to physical damage again. This lasted for a couple of seconds. Didn't have enough time to finish him off, so I died... Good thing we don't lose xp in this fight no more. I bet I could've taken him down with ninja tools.

Ok so when I did this the first time it was horrible. Took us 2 hrs to get to the ShadowLord b/c we had 4 ppl lvl 54-63 and 2 75's and aggroed tons. the Shadow Lord is an EASY fight.

Now for the 2nd time I did it, we had 60drk 62war(me) 74blm 75whm 75pld 75mnk. got through the whole place and only aggroed 2 times besides when we had to use the teleporters. When we entered the room with the ShadowLord we waited 30 seconds for the CS, then remembered it would take a while, so 75mnk engaged and me and Pld followed suit. Mnk was hitting him for about 110 each and I was doing about 80 each. I 2hred and after I used rampage for 900, he became immune to Physical attacks, so Blm nuked his *** and by this time the CS was over so whm and pld were using Holy, back to physical attacks, beat him, another CS.

For 2nd round the mnk used Hundred Fists, I rampaged and got a Scission of someones WS for 500, not much time later his hp went from 2/5 to Zero when Mnk used Asuran Fists(1100), I used Rampage(850), Pld used Swift Blade(450) and Blm used Thundaga 3(1200) all at the same time. Skipped cut scene and WOOT set new record, 3min 41 seconds. old record was 4min 42seconds.

The whole time we did this we were in NO danger of dying. After the battle I had somewhere around 800-900hp. 850/1400 and was using berserk while SL was spamming AOE. not too shabby I suppose.

Me, the Blm, and the Mnk are planning to do it again ASAP and try to get 3minutes or under this time.

I am redoing this for Bastok (finished rank 10 for Sandy over a year ago).

I wonder a lvl 75 whm can solo this. Well gonna find out soon :)

Yeap i just did for a lv50 whm friend, without any juice, potions etc, only prob was i was low on MP at the end so i couldn't keep my WHM friend cured on the second stage when it started the AOEs and he burnt alot of his MP when i moved SL because i thought i might be able to rest between fights, and he got hit with a couple of AOEs.

Hi me a 71rdm/35blm and a 73mnk/36war duo'd the Shadow lord last night. Took us only 8 min to beat. Also looks funny cuz 2 little taru's beatin up on such a huge mob. Also got 13 exp and my sword reached 190 on him. lol Skill up on the shadow lord.

When you enter this battlefield, do not move. Eat your food, buff up, then fully heal before engaging the Dark Lord. This battle is done in two seperate battles. During both these battles he is immune to magic AND physical damage during certain points.

The dark lord's first form is physical. He will only use physical attacks and two-hour, no magic during this first battle. The one with the most hate should be hasted. Everyone should save their two-hours for the next battle. At some point melee will hit 0, when this happens he becomes immune to physical attacks. With a few magic hits from a mage, he will become immune to magic. Finish his first form off with physical attacks. Your mages should rest as much as possible.

When his first form dies, you will recieve a semi-cutscene and the second form appears.

The dark lord's second from is magic. This is the toughest because your party is weak from the first battle. If there is a Rdm in your party, do not use convert. He/she will die instantly. This time, he will repeatedly use nothing but AoE magic that delivers a rippling effect throughout the entire arena, attacking everyone. During this form, he doesnt seem to be immune to magic nor physical attacks because both inflict damage. If everyone uses their two-hour's he should go down pretty fast.

My husband (WAR75) and myself (Rdm69) helped a PLD59 with this mission (5-2). The first time we failed because we thought it was one boss fight with two forms - Wrong. When the second form presented itself, we were screwed because I had converted during the first battle and had very little MP. The second time, we had a WHM75 help us out. We did well during the first form. At the beginning of the second form, I converted shortly before the Dark Lord casted his AoE (bad move). I died instantly. The WAR75, and PLD59 fought while the Whm75 healed. They defeated the boss. Everyones HP was in the yellow, & 16 MP.

Okay, here is what we did. We wiped first time bcause we had no clue really lol. Here setup:

RDM68(moi) BLM75 BLU50 BLM58 PLD56(ish) BST56(ish)

weird eh ><!

Now, all you really gatta do is get your tank to take him up the steps, and have one mage healing him, and one (or in our case two) mages hanging back grabbing MP. About half way through the first fight, he becomes melee resistant and so thats when you need magix damage. Refresh is almost a must here! When melee start to hit for 0 thats when you know it's time to bring out the elemental stuff!

The second fight is awful, he spams real nasty AOE spells (blizzaga2, firaga2, aeroga2, Dark Nova which is a bad AOE style... attack.. thing), so its crucial your tank and melee are up teh steps, and mages are far away when healing on the opposite side of the room. Do the same, switching healers and this time his HP should come down alot quicker with just melee attacks.

When he got on fairly low MP we got our BLM to Manafont and that pretty much finished him off. We'd used up all our 2hrs on the last fight, heheh.

Be well prepared with food, and have someone with raise _and_ reraise incase you wipe >.<! always be prepared! Think ahead for mages MP, and you'll do fine!

30minute time restriction as well I believe. We did it in 24 minutes, but it was a comfortable win!

I went in with just me, two White Mages, Halfbreedindian and Leonley, both lower-level than me. I'm a BLM66/WHM33 and we went all the way in. Remember to cast Invis and Sneak the whole way or you could accidentally die. And please, for the HL sake, don't keep losing Sneak and Invis in front/very close to tough mobs. It ****** us off.

Anyways, this particular RDM, Toulon, went as RDM75/BLU37. I was puzzled about his sub, but he used Coccoon and Protect III. It was amazing, the Shadow Lord was hitting the RDM for 0 damage!! When he was halfway dead, we started nuking him hard and killed him quickly. After you kill him once, you have to kill him again, but anyone weak or low on HP needs to move all the way up to the coffin where the Shadow Lord came from, and the strong HL need to stay down where the Shadow Lord is and take him on. He uses this ability called 'Implosion,' where it basically does 50-150 damage to anyone within range, and the range is pretty far away, so move away as much as possible if you're close to death or weak. Once he died, yeah, we were done.

I'd like to take this moment to give a shout-out to my linkshell. Assassin's Linkshell is the best in Gilgamesh Server, and Liquid is the coolest! Yeah! Alright, I'm done.

At 65 nothing in the castle aggro'd (though I wasn't stupid enough to try casting around the elementals, so I'm not sure about them), and I don't believe anything would have in the lower parts of the keep either. Most checked low easy prey.

Actual fight wasn't too bad; it took a while once SL put up that melee-stoneskin because we didn't have a blm or rdm, but when he eventually returned back to his original state we killed him fast. Our only problem was at the last stage, his AoE really isn't avoidable so I'd recommend mages try to put up stoneskin before you finish his first form. Otherwise just stand beside melee (might as well, you're gonna get hit anyway) and go Curaga-happy.

Get a rdm/nin with utsusemi: NI to do this and its weary easy to solo. If you are too low lvl to fight this or anything. Soloed this with rdm75/nin37 helped a blm 56 do this he was just standing back helped nuke on when SL does stoneskin thing :P. nothing to it

I just did this as a 51 drk and let me tell you... If you are under 60 you are going to get aggro... even if you do sneak and invis the whole way its just rediculous to keep it up for more than one person... so my suggestion is A. be lvl 60+ or B. be lvl 60+ lol they ended up tractoring me to the top -_-" talk about degrading eh? Well i got through the CS and helped kill the Shadow Lord (btw the CS's are pimp ^_^) and well i did about 300 dmg tops lol because thats how fast it was over... had 4 70+ so he didn't have a chance... rdm nuked and converted.. after the SL did an AoE she died so lesson is.. don't convert unless you can survive the AoE lol but managed to kill him in 3 mins 35 secs which isnt the record but it is pretty fast lol took us about a half hour to get there >_< I did net 6 xp after the fight even with a lvl 75 in the PT but i lost 600+ from two deaths >_<

There's no cap to this mission, so take advantage of that and get some high levels in the group. It's also helpful outside the fight, so not everyone has to be sneaked/invised the whole way through Zvahl Castle Keep...that's a pain ;; and expect some aggro. It's a very long walk through, and it helps to have someone along who knows the way.

It was...60 WHM (me), 71 WAR (tanked it), 70 THF, 59 BLM, 75 BLM, and 63 MNK. The first two fights were easy, but the third one...ouch! Implosion hurts. The 63 and 59 both died, and I only lived because I kept Stoneskin up. Ran out of MP toward the end, casted Bene right before its death. At least you still complete the mission if you're dead. If you're the healer just spam cure spells and don't have mages spread out all across the room....if you're close enough to cast spells you're going to get AoE anyways, so might as well be right next to it.

I'm not sure if I've talked to everyone I need to. I had the quest to find Trion a girl activated and cancelled it, but I can't remember if I've talked to him about 5-2. I've tried zoning in and out of the chateau and he doesn't say anything else except for something like 'I don't know what Trion will say but you're free to do whatever you want' or something like it. I've tried clicking on Trion's door but it just says it's locked. I'm assuming I've got the stuff done, but I don't know. Any ideas?

well i got 75 pld 75smn[RL friend] 66thf 50brd 68nin and 57pld[myself] and we went to go do this...took a while to get there cause BRD wouldn't keep sneak and invisible upon himself to not get aggro'd...

well i got to area and mom had me go do something...came back and RL friend had already started to attack cause had LS event or W/e and also the nin had jumped in "tired of waiting"...

So i couldn't enter and i didn't get credit but the nin and brd and thf who i had helped het 5-1 so we could all get 5-2 got credit and i got shafted sitting at entrance to throne room...

No problem at all with the fight, but we had some aggros and deaths on the way to the throne room, mainly because the leader allieganced with other pt that didnt know the way XD The fun part is that we have never had everyone dying even in the worst moments, like when only me and the whm stayed alive against a huge link of quadavs and demons (warding circle ftw!!)

We told Kataki to keep his 2hr for the 2nd form, but he used it on the 1st form when he was weak to physical damage, which actually worked out fine in the end. SMN sent Fenrir in first and then BST (w/ Courier Carrie)and SAM went in next. I stood on the very edge of magic casting range (used about 2 Yagudo drinks)and kept the melee regen'd and healed, etc. Can't remember what Lunais did because being whm I always stand as far away as a I can... Anyway, we followed the usual procedures, alternating physical and magical damage (yay for Banish III!).

The reason I wanted to post was this, though... After defeating the first form, Lunais used Titan (If I remember correctly it was Earthsday) on Shadowlord while the rest of us moved away to rest mp & hp... I was so stoked for the next part... but then suddenly I see Lunais' MP drop from using 2hr... I asked, "What're you doin?" And Lunais replies, "I'm winning! :D" Less than 10 seconds later Shadowlord was dead... "What?? That's no fun!" I replied. So, I guess that means a 75 SMN can solo Shadowlord's second form no problem... Kind of a let down just sitting there doing nothing and watching him die... LOL

I figure I would lay down my experience with the Shadow Lord, as it was vastly different from everyone elses. I decided to make a solo attempt at him, however, having read that he becomes immune to Physical DMG, I tried my best to find a RDM or BLM. None wanted to try it, too many on 5-1, and those that had 5-2 didn't want to die. Okay, understandable. I brought my 58 DRK friend and he sub'd RDM, BLM was level 6, and RDM was the only mage sub up the par. After two deaths I discovered a pattern, and after we a RDM friend decided to help, I confirmed it, having beaten his supposed magic only form with a physical Jump attack. Here is what I learned:

The difference in my battle and in everyone elses is that mine was suppose to be long and drawn out, it's the way I do things. As hard as possible so I can obtain total and full enjoyment from an actual challenge, rather then watch several 75's end it all in seconds. No offense to those that do, that's just not my style. Because it was longer, I had the luxury of finding out things others won't see since it ends really fast.

At the start of the battle, he is immune to all magic as stated in the mission discription. at 45-50% HP he will raise his left hand and hold it there for a few seconds. At this time he remains immune to magical dmg, however, the moment he hand drops, his sword will obtain a purple glow, and he will now be immune to all forms of physical dmg and magical dmg will now hurt him (to include paralyze, gravity, and the absorb spells). During this form, everyone will normally -ga or III-IV him to death, however, as I did not have that the first two times, and the third time the RDM wasn't on his best game, we didn't have enough magic DMG to finish him off. This is where the interesting part begins. He will raise it left hand again (it seemed random, however, the time in between was long) and start casting a -ga spell or readying Dark Nova. While his hand is up, he will be weak to physical dmg again. It doesn't last long, so you'd need to pound everything into him and then some as fast as you can before the hand drops again.

After the first fight is over, he will change into a AoE monster and constantly throw out Implosion. He is exteremly weak HP wise, as I had 90 HP left after I finished his 'magic only' form with a Jump, about 35 mp, and the Wyvern was able to keep me alive (he had 15% HP) and survive four implosions. I had him at 1/4 HP before I finally hit the floor. Implosion also has a pattern that I noticed, though I wasnt exactly paying too close attention to really confirm. It would appear that the Implosions run in sets of 2. The 1st doing 120+ DMG (to me a 70 DRG), the 2nd doing only around 50+ DMG. Basically: 120 > 50 > 120 > 50 etc. etc. That is rather accurate, from my stand point, since I had hit 110 HP, threw myself a cure, and had 29 hp after the Implosion.

That's everything. Just figured I'd give everyone and exact run down of his pattern in terms of weakness. Hand goes up, Physical DMG, hand comes down, Magical DMG. I believe with enough juices to out last the magical form until the hand raises again, I could easily solo him as 70 DRG.

I did this mission last night and the Sadow Lord was no problem for my party of five. I was told that this fight was tough, but with a 75 Rng & 75 Rdm... this fight was over in no time and I was off to my home town to get my Rank 6.

The THF and I subbed WHM so we could sneak/inviz ourselves, but we found out along the way that wasn't really necessary. I think we saw one Decent Challenge along the way, but everything else was Too Weak or Easy Prey. We did get aggro from some demons a few times, but they were EP so it was no problem at all.

We got to the Throne Room and headed into the battlefield. Everyone except for the PLD, that is. He had the mission, but he must not have talked to everyone that he needed to because he could not get in. So we were in a pickle. We decided to give it a try anyway.

Now we needed a tank, so we decided to make me (WAR) into one. The THF and RDM had some extra equipment on them that they loaned to me. I took off all of my attack up, evasion down items and replaced them with more defense-oriented gear. So we converted me from a damage dealer into a make-shift tank. I used Defender instead of the usual Berserk/Aggressor combo. Nobody had any tank food (except the PLD who was stuck outside- haha), so I just used some Sole Sushi.

We were able to beat him pretty **** easily. A party of 5 lvl 64/65 players with a WAR/WHM tank. I think my HP got into the red one time, but I'm a Galka so I still had like 500 or 600 HP left when that happened. If all 6 of us had made it into the battle, we would have owned the Shadow Lord even harder. I hope this helps some of you.

Did this last nite, with a couple of friends. alas it was an ez fight, and very fun. I really liked the cutscenes, which is why id like to know. Is it possible to watch the cutscenes again? I am from san`dOria and i tried the minstrel of melodies bards in all the zones, but they only replay the cutscenes in the chatteu =.= if anyone knows anything please let me know, Id love to watch the cutscenes again

Is there any type of prerequisite you need to complete before I can get my PT together, and head into fight the shadow lord? I've done the cutscene, and the mission is activated and says "You must head to Castle Zvahls". Am I good to go? o.O

That was the most fun I have had in a long while. I went with this party after just doing 5-1 and I brought my friend, Shikigami (SMN75/WHM). I'm THF59/NIN at time of doing this. Anyway, Shiki and I were getting tired of waiting for this party that was taking 2 hours just to get to the place, which is stupid. Anyway, there was a bard (level 50) from the party waiting there and they were pretty smart unlike everyone else. My friend, the bard and I left the party and did the mission. All I can say is that Shiki owned that thing with like 20-30 mp for 3/4 of that fight. Just wanted to share because it was so freaking awesome. =p

My static group did this Saturday, all level 60, PLD, DRG, SMM, BLM-me. we picked up a 64 WHM JP who needed it, and had a 70's RDM along for the ride. The hardest part, imo with this set upwas just getting to the throne room. I guess the RDM hadnt been there since he had done it, so it took about 38 minutes from zoning into Zval to get to the top of the Castle. (what a cool place for SS by the way, awsome scenery, imo.)

We had studied the other posts, and knew what to expect. To his credit, the RDM did let us do most of the work, only nuking once, twice at the most, refreshing the SMM and WHM and PLD mostly.

We buff up, enter, melees start in. I give him a Choke and Drown to help their damage dealt and taken, and when i start seeing Shadow lord takes 0 damage,(for the record, i didnt see anywhere in the chat log, "The Shadow lors uses Invincable", and no animation so pay attention to chat log) I start with the nukes. a Fire II, Firaga II and Thunder II gave me the message, Austie defeats the shadow lord.

3rd form really wasnt to hard either, he does spam AOE implosion every 2-3 seconds, But a Water III, Aero III and BLizzaga II make shork work of that form.

then, the funny part. From all the posts, I thought I knew exactly what would happen in the CS, so to my shock, none of it did!!! I swore the game was broke, or a glitch. Needless to say, when I got to Norg, I got my memory back, lol.

This mission is so much fun. I would say it is my favorite battle right behind ZM8.

When i did 5-2 I was a lvl 59. The pt setup was

59 RDM 59 BLM 61 BLM 59 WHM 59 DRK 66 PLD

We kicked some major ***. I had a blast because I was the only melee, so when SL was resistant to magic, it was all on me to deal the damage, which was really sweet, I just kept adding more and more JAs. Only sucky part was since I was only 59, my best ws was Vorpal Scythe which only did 683 dmg even when I was going all out. I really want to do 5-2 again now and go all out as drk/war for some guillotine action.

PLDs are melee too, and RDMs probably should if you're low on melees. I know it's easy to forget about PLDs since we do all of about 20 damage per swing. But we do, you know, keep you alive and stuff. ^^

Just a tip, as I got myself in a bad spot just GETTING the mission from San D'Oria. As it turned out, I had the Paladin AF Body Quest going at the same time as the 5-2 quest, so after I talked to the mission giver at the Gates, go to talk to Prince Trion...he tells me about the old man for the Paladin AF. Ok..go talk to Halver (or whatever his name is), he talks about the quest where you find a girl for Prince Trion. Hmmm. I seem to be caught in a loop, but I didn't know it at the time. So...needless to say I got to the Throne Room and got denied. My word of advice for San D'Oria that HAPPEN to have some quests in the Chateau going...make sure Halver tells you to go see Prince Trion. From there, make sure Prince Trion TELLS you to go to Castle Zhval Baileys...cause if he doesn't, your outta luck.

Excellent question. Nothing here suggested that the trip would be so circuitous so I thought it would be like 5-1, show up and fight. We had a pick-up party including 70+ PLD and RDM so we really squandered a great opportunity when no one was prepared to risk trying different routes.

You really need to Google for a map. I found one at Anala WHM but there may be others. It is a really long trip when someone's sneak or invis. is wearing every 30 seconds and you have to stop for a 3 min. fight. If you want to blaze your own trail be prepared for this.

I did this mission last night with only 1 lvl 75 helping and my self. this was the set up we used.

75 rdm/nin 50 whm/blm (me)

since he has done it before by the time i was out of teh cs he already had the shadow lord down to 3/4ths hp. so basicly all i did was heet him hasted kpet my stone skin up and put regen 2 on him form time to time. 15 minutes into the fight form 1 dies. Then i get another cs and teh shadow lord walks toward me rdm/nin atatcks and takes hate and runs into the corner near the entrance and i run up to the grave. rest up mp. rdm is down to 150 mp and full health. throws up stone skin and phalax and converst and cure IV twice hits full hp agai nand goes back to town.. i do the same as before.... 5 minutes later form 2 dies. Over all time for our dou 20 minutes and 45 seconds. not a record but it was fun proving you don't need alot of people for this.

I've fought the shadow lord atleast 5 times, and heres the strategy I tell all of my parties before we fight it. Having a BLM, WHM and RDM in the party REALLY makes the fight a lot easier. BLM, RDM, WHM, PLD or NIN, and a couple more DDs (maybe a DRK or 2 for Stun) about level 60 should have no problem taking the shadow lord down if you follow my strategy. It wouldn't hurt if the mages have a couple ethers on them:

The Shadow Lord has 3 forms. His 3rd form is the most deadly, so save your 2 hours until his 3rd form. When we enter, this is his first form. The Shadow Lord will not take any damage from magic spells, he will still be able to get the status effects of magic though, so BLM save your mp. He occasionally uses AOE attacks, so (BLM or DRK) make sure to stun it. At about halfway down HP, he'll glow for a second and change to his second form, he'll be immune to physical attacks but vulnerable to magic. BLM, this is when you nuke the **** out of it. After it's HP goes down to 0, there will be a short cutscene, then he will come back and change to his 3rd form, and start imploding. Implosion is the attack name, and it is a very strong AoE attack that he will spam. DRK, stun it like crazy. BLM, use manafont and nuke it to death. PLD (if you have it), use invincible to keep hate off the BLM and WHM.

Now, since Implosion has such a huge AoE range, do NOT have your mages spread out, have everyone gather together right at the shadow lord. Theres a very good reason for this. To be out of range of Implosion, the shadow lord would have to be at the entrance while someone goes to the other side of the room, right next to the coffin thingy. But doing this does no good at all, if a mage does this, yes they are out of the range of Implosion, but they are well out of casting range of their spells. So have everyone stay together and the WHM spam Curaga. If the RDM has to use convert, then either put up stoneskin and use convert right after the SL uses Implosion or run to the other side of the room.

Everyone must do their best to kill this form as fast as they can and keep everyone alive.